[prog] Java and Linux

[Liz Burke-Scovill]

*nod* I would have to agree on Ubuntu vs RH's java packaging.

For all that I've had zero problems on my *buntu boxes, I've had some
difficulties on my RH based boxes ... and it seems to do with how java (sun
sdk in both cases) had been packaged and installed on the RH based system.

Perhaps it's simply my relative unfamiliarity with how that particular
distro lays things out, but I don't entirely think so. But that's not going
to stop me from looking into it. I just need the time ;)

Liz

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Julie Hill <joulie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Liz Burke-Scovill
> <fiddledragon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am a java developer - so for me it was just a matter of making sure
> that I
> > had the sun jdk before I got started.
>
> I'm a Java developer and I agree - Sun JDK - that was the key
> difference for me on Linux. I've had bad experiences using the
> distro-packaged Java and various Java apps, and once I abandoned those
> and started downloading and installing my own stuff, everything worked
> great from then on (especially Eclipse and Tomcat). But don't get me
> wrong, I sincerely don't mean to bash the distros and their way of
> packaging Java things because I know they've had legitimate reasons
> for doing what they do, but I personally have never had a good
> experience with the ones I tried.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu Hardy Heron now, and the packaged Sun Java worked out
> perfectly, but Tomcat and Eclipse I still keep under my control, not
> their packages - I'm suspicious and distrustful now, so I've never
> actually tried the Ubuntu versions and can't say how they work.
>
> A friend recently had a very bad experience with RedHat Enterprise and
> Java -- he's new to Java, and RH was by default using GCJ and he had
> all sorts of interoperability problems. Could be CentOS has a similar
> problem. He says because of libraries he ended up uninstalling GCJ
> entirely to get Java and Tomcat working (he downloaded & installed
> them himself) - but like I said, he's new to Java so he might have
> over-reacted, too.
>
> Julie
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